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Low-dose naltrexone (LDN) has drawn interest among patients and clinicians looking for tools to address the persistent symptoms of benzodiazepine-induced neurological dysfunction (BIND) — the syndrome of protracted neurological, cognitive, and autonomic…

Patients on long-term clonazepam — Klonopin — frequently describe a specific change that rarely appears in the chart. They feel less. Grief softens, joy softens, irritation softens, sexual response softens. The range…

A prescribing cascade, in the terminology introduced by Rochon and Gurwitz in the mid-1990s, occurs when the adverse effect of one medication is misinterpreted as a new medical condition and treated with…

Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) has drawn attention as a candidate for managing sexual side effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). The interest is driven by three factors: the sexual dysfunction produced by…

Patients who have been told their persistent post-discontinuation symptoms are “just anxiety” usually arrive at the search for a new clinician already exhausted. The difficulty is real: most physicians were trained on…

Locating a compounding pharmacy that will produce liquid clonazepam at a useful concentration for a slow taper is a question patients face when their current tablet-based dosing becomes too coarse to permit…